Sign the Petition to

The Vanguard Group

Shareholders deserve to know how corporate executives are spending their investments so they can make informed financial decisions. Please instruct your proxies to vote in favor of any resolution that requires corporations to disclose all political spending to its shareholders.

But if we speak out right now we can enlist one of the biggest
mutual funds in the country to put a stop to secret influence-trading.

Shockingly, most corporate political spending is hidden to even
their stockholders. But any publicly traded company has to disclose all
of its political spending if enough of its shareholders ask.

Here's the problem: on their own, individual stockholders don't
control enough stock to win majority support for a pro-disclosure
shareholder resolution. Most stock is held by institutional investors
like mutual funds, who tend let the corporation's executives call the
shots.

So even when a majority of people who own stock want disclosure,
they can't get it done without institutional investors. That's why we're
calling on Vanguard, the largest mutual fund in the nation, to vote FOR
disclosure whenever a resolution comes up.